all the people all over the state who got their start from louise shadegg, and the way she did it, by being nice to people. people knew, if they were in politics, they wanted to be friends with louise. .. a we think it was first used in the first place by some of the french-speaking who were with the british company that moved down into this area. as a tribe that lived around lake coeur d'alene would travel up to the trading post new the canadian border, for some reason we think because they were extremely -- today we see this person is sharp as a tack. the sharpest little tool was this awl, so they started calling the indians when it went up to trade it would take days to trade and so they got -- somehow refer to them as coeur d'alene which means people with hearts as sharp as the point of a awl. for some reason the name got attached to them. they began to call themselves the coeur d'alene. pretty soon it's on one of the early maps. the lake which deliver around this whole basin which they live around became known as lake coeur d'alene. them in the first military fort was built in 18